The computer takes 2 minutes from i turn the power on, until the Elyssa button appears on the taksbar. It takes only 15 seconds from power on until I briefly see something about Grub and then the OS chooser appears.

There are some guides that are talk about tweaking ubuntu. The most useful I found was a little software called sysv-rc-conf which lets you enable and disable services/deamons. You can also try concurrency (can't remember how its done right now), which seemed to increase the performance and boot time by a great deal..

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